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RichyBlacK:
Your words!

Mr Yousef, who is known as Joseph by friends at the Barabbas Road church in San Diego, California, arrived in America 18 months ago but only recently made "the biggest decision of my life" to go public with his conversion to draw attention to how the

Palestinian leadership is "misleading" and exploiting its people.
"Palestinians look really ugly in front of everybody in the world and they are very, very good people , they are misled, and their picture is very dark because of this leadership.
"They need some help, they need people to stop lying to them, and lying to the world."

Mr Yousef was raised as a Muslim by his politically powerful family. His father, Hassan Yousef, a highly respected sheikh born in the West Bank town of al-Ghaniya near Ramallah, is a founding member of Hamas, whose military wing has instigated dozens of suicide bombings and other attacks against Israel since it was formed in 1987.Mr Yousef said that his doubts about Islam and Hamas crystallised when he realised not all Hamas leaders were like his father, a moderate who he describes as "open-minded, very humble and honest".

Mr Yousef said that he was appalled by the brutality of the movement, including the suicide bombers seeking glory through jihad.
"Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate," he said.cNevertheless he does not advocate the "collapse of Islam", but rather for people to acknowledge that after 1,400 years "it's not working any more".
He said: "It's not taking them anywhere. It's making them look ugly."

He hopes that Muslims will begin to question their religion and "fix it" by rejecting the parts that call for "killing others, cutting hands, cutting legs, torturing people and asking for destruction of entire civilisations".

He said that after he converted to Christianity, he decided he had to escape and "live my life away from violence because I couldn't coexist with that situation as a Christian."
"I was thinking, what is my responsibility now? To see people dying every day or to stand up and say, this is wrong, this is right and be strong about this? So I had to make this move."

RichyBlacK:
Mr. Bastard, do you now understand that there is nothing like "purely defensive" missile? If you've learnt that, then you've be helped. Ode!

tpia:
the quote is anything but brilliant.Stone Age describes a primitive way of living, and comparing that time with today's world shows a questionable worldview.

Nigeria (in particular bight of guinea) will definitely run out of oil, but the world that is another question, I think that was what Yamani was referring to not Nigeria's depleting oil resources, FYI Canada has the largest oil resources in the world, to bad its mixed with sand and the process of removing the sand is costly.

RichyBlacK:
But why can't your tiny brain capture the reality that if an event is possible, then given the right circumstance, such an event can actually occur? The validity of this simple logical reasoning cannot be conditioned on what the press has published regarding Russia's complaints. I really feel sorry for whoever taught you logic or math in school. You're an utter disappointment!

tpia:
unfortunately, I can't agree with you here.

I'D rather go with the people who did detailed studies and calculations on the oil availability.
43 years sounds reasonable to me. Nigerian oil should be nearing its peak, insha Allah.

RichyBlacK:
@ 4 Play,
Yep, I recall the challenge, and I recall that you were supporting a fraudulent position. The name posted was of an Israeli who had two dates of death! It's becoming clear that stupidity is your sanctuary.

Did this animal ask a question? So, if your incompetent brain can begin to understand and appreciate the possibility of converting "defensive" systems to "offensive" systems, then you think (I use this term very loosely) that such an understanding would escape the grand masters of missile systems in Russia?

tpia:
Nigeria's oil is expected to peak (dry up) sometime in the 43 years after discovery.
that should be sometime soon- hopefully within the next decade or so.

All these attacks forcing a drop in production- hope folks arent trying to extend the oil shelf life , sha.
Indirectly trying to ration the oil drilling in order to make it last longer. .

dayokanu:
How many generations of players won 9 UCL for Madrid?

JeopardE:
The incredible stupidity displayed before the world by this woman boggles the mind.

Let's look at the facts here.  It is illegal under US law for a campaign candidate to receive donations from foreigners. It is illegal, period. There isn't even a "maximum limit".

”At no time did we say we were raising money for Obama.“What we are saying is that Obama is for the world and he has been getting support from Europeans, from Arabs and from all over and Nigerians should not be different.

“We are not collecting money for Obama. I lived in the US for 14 years; I am a Green Card holder and I know the law. We are just mobilising people who are eligible voters to go out and register and voter for him and I don‘t know why this should be an issue.

While novices like you rely on the press (CNN and BBC) to give you information about this issue, people who know about these technologies do not need the press to tell them of the possibility of converting "defensive" systems to "offensive" systems.

RichyBlacK:
1. 4 Play has no idea the role of software in modern missile systems. He probably thinks that those missiles are shot by humans watching the night sky. Real mumu!
2. 4 Play does not understand the concept of reusability in modern technologies. He still thinks that every hardware is built again from scratch, whenever a new purpose is defined for the system the hardware integrates into. Real ode!
3. 4 Play thinks it is impossible for a missile that can track and hit a moving target cannot be used to hit a stationary target. Complete buffoon!
4. 4 Play cannot answer the simple question: "What would America do if Russia deploys ABMs in Cuba to protect Mexico from Brazil?" Real ote!

[b]The fact is that 4 Play is not aware of the many reasons why Russia is opposed to the deployment of ABMs in Poland. [/b]If the systems are entirely "defensive" and if Russian missiles can penetrate the shield, then why is Russia worried? Are the Russians just a bunch of worriers? No. The gist is that the conversion of "defensive" systems to "offensive" systems is an exact science! Only a fool will fail to realize that all "defensive" systems are potential "offensive" systems, at least in the context of missile technologies. How and when the system is deployed will properly define its status.

RichyBlacK:
4 Play,
Instead of spending so much time posting over 12,000 posts on Nairaland (considering the huge number of profiles you've created, e.g. I-man, etc.), why not just pick up a good non-fiction book (not sport magazine) and read. Or visit other serious forums and soak up some knowledge. Depending on the little education you got from college is not doing you much good. Try to upgrade yourself, seriously. Your general knowledge base has dwindled. Pathetic!

I repeat, you're a complete and utter neophyte on the subject of missile technologies.

Ibime:
Well, this extract answers some of this:

One way to assess the prospects for these countries is to examine how they are performing today, compared with previous episodes of high commodity prices. Is there anything to suggest that this time their performance after the boom could be different? The best emerging market prospects would be resource producers that have installed sound economic institutions to avoid the boom-bust cycle of the past. Take the case of Nigeria. Since the current oil boom started in 2004, its economic performance has been far better than in previous booms in 1974–78, 1979–83, and 1990–94—whether measuring non-oil growth or inflation (see Chart 1).

RichyBlacK:
All missiles in the same range category or ballistic class have essentially similar hardware, however, what distinguishes them is an itty-bitty thing called software.  What you term "defense system" can be converted to an "offensive system" by changing the software.

You do no have to be a genius to tell that what happened was that soldiers who had political power and were predominantly more Northern saw Oil revenues and wanted to get more to their part of the country thought he instrumentality of fiscal transfers. Net result, the North got more and became poorer. Why? Simple. The incentives were scramble for power and appropriate as much of the unearned receipts as possible. How do politicians who have appropriated money not earned spend it? Like people who have won the lottery. They often return to poverty. In the meanwhile more and more revenues are going to recurrent expenditure to meet the needs of these politicians and the bureaucracies they create than build infrastructure that open opportunities for growth.

Go to the North East and see cities that boomed more with the arrival of good roads that have since died because the infrastructure has deteriorated and collapsed. Do we remember the rise and fall of Numan (part of the Numan - Biu highway). So when I see people from the Niger Delta agitate for more, not to maintain a principle but to get more, I fear the same 'gold rush' effect that pauperized the North. This is why I celebrated Rotimi Amaechi's job creation and empowerment initiative as a way of building a generation that seeks to create wealth as against those waiting for their share who will more quickly turn to kidnapping for ransom. The voracity thesis of the scramble for unearned income, the reason for many of Africa's civil wars is still alive in our midst.

Until the Georgia crisis, Poles didn't want the US missile shield. It was seen as another demonstration of Bush lunacy: a piece of kit that didn't work; a $100bn subsidy of American aerospace; a defence against an Iran that would use a terror cell with a dirty bomb before an ICBM; and a middle finger to a Kremlin that will take any pretext to whip up Russian nationalism to distract from its own failings.

But now, the 10 interceptor missiles headed for Poland have real power – and that power is symbolic rather than tactical. With American boots and hardware on the ground in their country, Poles feel that they cannot be let down in the way they have been so many times before. The Kremlin's recent behavior, and long memories in this part of the world, makes Poles want that certainty.

KarmaMod:
While I find your plan amusing

The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.
Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender.
"No-one knows who I am," he told the magazine, before claiming: "I live here on less than a dollar a month."
According to Italy's Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants AC Milan and Inter, as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world.

jumobi1:
please, let us stop insulting each other. Thank u!!

RichyBlacK:
Nna, but you for try answer the question na. Which ones? 

mikeansy:
Where your proof say any of them be overage apart from Osaze ??

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RichyBlacK:
@Tayo-D,

One question (asked in several ways):

1. Is it okay to kill hundreds of his own people, to "maintain the territorial integrity of his nation"?
2. To what extent is it justifiable to "maintain the territorial integrity of his nation"?
3. Are there any limits to what he is expected to/should/can/will do to "maintain the territorial integrity of his nation"?
Thanks.

RichyBlacK:
@Tayo-D,

What was America's reaction when the Soviet Union put "defensive" missiles in Cuba in 1962?

If the missiles the Americans want to put in Poland is to protect Europe from Iran's non-existent nuclear threat, why not place the missiles in Bulgaria, Romania or Turkey?